Hanger



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HANGER Application filed. January 4, 1928. Serial 1T0..244,417..

This invention is an improvement in hangvided by a disk .2 of sheet material, such as ers, and more particularly in hangers designed to support a picture, mirror, or the like, from a picture rail or other support.

The usual hanger is composed of a rosette, including a solid center, an ornamental border, and a bracket having a hook for engaging the hanger, and a hook or other means to which the picture suspending cord is connected.

The solid body is usually covered with cloth of silk or like material, and the border is of similar material, so that the hanger as a whole is relatively expensive.

One of the primary objects of the present invention is the provision of a construction of hanger of a nature such that it may be manufactured and sold at a relatively low cost.

Another object is to provide a hanger composed of simple parts easily assembled,- and requiring no skilled labor.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts fully described hereinafter, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims appended hereto, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and I minor details of construction within the scope of the claim, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention. I

In the drawings forming a part hereof Fig. 1 is a front view of one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2j2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a rear view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front View of another embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a front view of a tassel capable of use with the hanger. I

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the hanger includes a solid center or body 10f fibrous material capable of being penetrated'by'a pointedbody, nail or tack, as for instance wood, and capable of holding the pointed member through friction. In addition, there is a border, propaper, fibre, metal, or thelike, of a diameter to extend circumferentially beyond the body, when the body is centrally placed thereon.

The hanger is completed by a bracket member 3 of metal, in the shape of a bar, having one end curved as at 4 to provide a hook for engaging a picture rail, and having at the other end means to be engaged by a picture supportlng cord 5. Thismeans in the present instance is a hook or eye 6, and an opening 7 is provided at the junction of the hook or eye with the hook or bracket.

The picture hanging cord 5 is doubled upon itself, and the doubled end is passed through the opening 7, and placed about the hook 6. That is, the loop formed by doubling is engaged outside of the hook. Afterwards, the

bill of the hook may be pressed down against the body of the bracket as shown. The body of the bracket is provided with a plurality of openings for receiving pointed members 8, such as nails or tacks, which are driven through the openings, through the disk, and into engagement with the solid center or body. Thus all of the parts are firmly connected.

In practice, the body and border are of har- .1noniously contrasting colors, in accordance with any desired color scheme, and that part of the disk which provides the border may be suitably ornamented. As shown in Fig. 1, this portion of the disk is scalloped and perforated as at 2'.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the hanger includes a solid center or body 9, a disk 10, and a bracket 11, the bracket and disk being similar to those shown in Fig. 1." However, instead of scalloping theborder, that is the portion of the disk extending beyond the solid center, it is embossed as shown at '26. The embossing also assiststo' strengthen the extended portion of the disk, and the body and border may be colored in any desired manner.

In Fig. 6, a tassel is shown, which may be used in connection with the hanger, when a tassel is desired. The tassel includes the tassel proper 12, and a loop 13, and in practice the completed tassel will be of a color corresponding preferably to that of the solid cen- The loop may be connected with the element 6 ter of the hanger with which it is to be used.

ofthe bracket in any suitable manner, as for instance the loop may be passed over the hook before it is closed, or after closure the hook may be open far enough to receive the loop of the tassel.

The improved hanger is of Very simple construction, and may be manufactured at a cost such that it may be sold at a very low price. chain stores specializing in very low prices,

and the hanger proper and the tassel may be sold as separate articles, if desired.

WVhat is claimed as new is In the manufacture of hangers for pic,- tures and the like, a plurality of units, including a disk, at center-piece of less diameter thanthe disk, and a bracket hook, said cen-f ter-piece. and disk being variously ornamented, the units being. assembled with the center-piecearranged coaxially with the disk on one face thereof, andwith the bracket hook on the other face extending transversely of the dlSk, and, securing means for connectlng the bracket hook to the center-piece through the disk, the bracket hook having openings for the securing means. 7

Signed at New York city in the county. of

New York and State of NeWYork this 29th day of December, A. D. 1927.

MORRIS BERNHARD.

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